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To make things short, is it safe to download the daily puzzles in the two Prof. Layton games even when using a public header, or can I get banned from that? Or, does the banning risk only apply to actual multiplayer games?

At the moment I can't dump my own carts (as in, I don't own a Gateway), otherwise that would be the best route, of course.

IIRC, all of the "downloadable" puzzle data was already in the roms. I think the game never actually downloaded anything meaningful when it connected to the server. My theory is that it simply pinged the server to receive a packet to read the current timestamp of the server and compare it to the hardcoded "day 1" timestamp as conditions for the unlock loop code.

EDIT: To write it in a psuedocode syntax, the function would probably be similar to this: (forgive my logic, it's been many many years since I've done any kind of coding)

IIRC, all of the "downloadable" puzzle data was already in the roms. I think the game never actually downloaded anything meaningful when it connected to the server. My theory is that it simply pinged the server to receive a packet to read the current timestamp of the server and compare it to the hardcoded "day 1" timestamp as conditions for the unlock loop code.

EDIT: To write it in a psuedocode syntax, the function would probably be similar to this: (forgive my logic, it's been many many years since I've done any kind of coding)

I'm also interested in this. Can you download the daily puzzles without having the game completed?
And how did you do it with the DS games, by the way?

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Oh, well, it's just too long ago now. I remember, though, for 'The Last Specter' that it wasn't all that difficult, and I've been able to use my existing save. You don't actually 'download' these daily puzzles, they are already on the cartridge and you just unlock them. Compared to the regular weekly puzzles, there are also some additional ones. However, there where some that wouldn't work at all (uncompleted?) and some that weren't even translated from japanese.

I also never accessed the internet on my DS Lite. The only type of WiFi encryption that thing offered was already obsolete basically the day the DS Lite was released, so I jiust never had an access point.